NAF neutralises terrorist figures in precision air strike

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF), operating nether the Joint Task Force, Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), has recorded a important operational occurrence against terrorists successful the Lake Chad portion pursuing a precision aerial onslaught connected an identified violent hideout connected October 19, 2026.

This was contained successful a connection by Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, Director of Public Relations and Information, Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force.

According to the statement, the cognition underscores the NAF’s sustained committedness to degrading violent networks, disrupting their logistics and enhancing information crossed Nigeria’s North-East.

"Preliminary post-strike assessments bespeak that respective salient Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters were neutralised, including individuals identified arsenic cardinal figures wrong the group’s information operation and enactment council, similar Jindullah, reportedly the Chief Security Guard and confidant of Abu Saleem arsenic good arsenic Abul Kissa, a subordinate of ISWAP Shura Council," the connection said.

It said the onslaught besides destroyed logistical assets, including vessel engines and motorcycles, believed to enactment the group’s question and operational activities.

It said the cognition demonstrates the NAF’s aggravated effort to behaviour intelligence-led precision strikes against violent enclaves concealed wrong hard terrain, by neutralising cardinal operatives and...